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728 Puzzle games reviewed and scored, best first.
728 reviews
A solo-developed Ukrainian first-person horror walking sim built around a real, folklore-haunted Kyiv hillside and Cold War-era secrets, praised for its atmosphere, sound design, and sense of place, but held back by an unfair forced-flashlight chase mechanic and a scattering of technical rough edges.
7.4 / 10
A clean, classic 6x6 animal-face match-3 with cascading matches - confirmed genuinely working via real score-increasing swaps on both desktop and phone, after fixing a real canvas-overflow bug that made two-thirds of the board invisible on high-DPI phones.
7.4 / 10
A from-scratch, Candy Crush-style match-3 with generic shapes instead of licensed candy art, four toggleable modes, and touch-drag swap controls confirmed working via genuine live-state verification on both phone and desktop.
7.4 / 10
A clean, classic box-pushing puzzle with seven hand-built levels, whose touch controls needed a missing viewport tag fixed before they'd work at all — but are solid once that's done.
7.4 / 10
A genuinely polished mahjong solitaire with provably solvable boards, hand-drawn tile faces, and a thoughtful mobile layout that scrolls rather than crushing tiles — confirmed to actually match tiles correctly on both phone and desktop.
7.4 / 10
words from pluto... is a free, under-twenty-minute experimental platformer where every movement ability is a word you've collected, and this review's near-unanimous 64-of-65 Very Positive sample praises its inventive core idea and real accessibility options, while a smaller thread of reviewers found the deep-cut secret endings frustratingly obscure without outside help.
7.4 / 10
A well-built falling-block puzzle with real piece physics, a ghost-drop preview, and genuine VS AI / AI vs AI modes beyond single-player - shipped here under a distinct renamed title for trademark reasons, confirmed working with a full movement/rotation/drop control scheme on both desktop and phone.
7.3 / 10
Charm Studies is a short, cozy picross game wrapping nonogram puzzles in a sweet visual novel about a witch failing her charms class, and its near-unanimous Very Positive review sample praises its charm and presentation while flagging real complaints about puzzle length and the occasional guess-based solution.
7.3 / 10
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A Mastermind variant where the computer never actually commits to a secret code until it has to — an adversarial twist confirmed working cleanly through a tap-native color-picker UI.
7.3 / 10
A time-travel puzzle-platformer built for GameDev.js Jam 2023 (tied 7th, Open Source category) - confirmed working correctly on desktop with real held-key movement and a genuine mid-air jump, and correctly shipped desktop-only since the game is keyboard-only throughout with no touch handling anywhere.
7.3 / 10
A tight little path-finding puzzle built for js13k 2025's 13-kilobyte limit, where a mother cat has to reach her scattered kittens before running out of moves — genuinely good on-screen controls, once you give the buttons a real press rather than a flick.
7.3 / 10
A maze-building roguelite from Devolver Digital where you play the Minotaur defending your labyrinth from adventurers, praised by reviewers as a genuinely fresh hybrid of tower defense, puzzle design, and melee combat, though not without real complaints about repetition, bugs, and performance.
7.3 / 10
Nullis is a $6.99 zero-clearing logic puzzle from Estonian solo developer Verontsik, and this review's small but unanimously positive sample (10 of 10 reviews) praises a gradually-introduced, genuinely challenging mechanic wrapped in an unusually extensive accessibility feature set for a solo indie.
7.3 / 10
A polished Peggle-style peg-clearing shooter -- aim your cannon, launch the ball, and chase escalating combo multipliers to knock out every orange peg.
7.3 / 10
Google Chrome Labs rebuilds Minesweeper from the mine grid up for the touchscreen era — a Clear/Flag switch instead of a right-click, full screen-reader and keyboard support, and a feature-phone mode — wrapped around gameplay that is, deliberately and entirely, the 1990 original.
7.3 / 10
A roguelite puzzle game about running a post office staffed by cute roach workers, placing Tetris-shaped stamps by colour adjacency, that reviewers repeatedly compare to Balatro for its addictive "one more run" pull.
7.3 / 10
Together: Moon Escape is a $9.99 asymmetric two-player puzzle adventure about escaping a corporate slime-mining operation on the Moon, and its clever, communication-driven puzzles have won over most co-op pairs, even as janky movement and a few confusing puzzle sections frustrate a vocal minority.
7.3 / 10
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A clean, well-built water-sorting puzzle across nine difficulty levels, with tap-to-pour touch controls confirmed working precisely - after fixing three real bugs in the shipped repository, including broken icon files and a dead reference to an external component the game doesn't actually need.
7.3 / 10
A tight, neon Zuma-style marble popper -- aim from the center of a spiral, match 3+ colors before the chain reaches the middle.
7.3 / 10
An 18-level tap-and-swipe puzzle built for the 13-kilobyte js13k 2021 competition, where every square on a 6x6 board is either something you remove, something you push, or the black hole eating whatever falls into it — small, free, and entirely swipe-and-tap to control.
7.2 / 10
A two-day-old cozy first-person tidying sim that scatters 2,071 jigsaw pieces from 87 real public-domain paintings across a gallery and asks you to sort them back into place, priced at €4.67 and sitting at 91.7% positive on its opening weekend.
7.2 / 10
A one-room Bitsy puzzle jam game whose title is also its entire plot — except the level keeps repeating, and the real puzzle is figuring out why.
7.2 / 10
A Groundhog Day Horror Loop, Now With a New Face House 2 picks up the trial-and-error, time-loop horror formula of the original House, in which a girl is trapped reliving the same
7.2 / 10
A clean, single-file Minesweeper whose default Easy board is genuinely well-built for touch — confirmed responsive at exactly 390px with no overflow, tap-to-reveal and flood-fill working correctly — but whose Medium and Hard difficulties measurably overflow a phone screen, and whose long-press-to-flag control relies on the browser's native gesture rather than custom code, which this review's tooling could not fully verify on a physical device.
7.2 / 10
